Scope and Content: Collection documents the lives of the
Rickenbacker family, particularly Eddie Vernon Rickenbacker. Contains
scrapbooks and newspaper clippings, photographs, sound recordings, 16 mm
motion pictures, correspondence, diaries, legal documents in original and
copies, condolence letters upon Eddie's death, maps, declassified reports
to Army Air Force in World War II, other various reports of travels, affidavits
taken by movie studio regarding loss of Eddie at sea, publications by and
about Rickenbackers, material relative to Eastern Air Lines.

Source of Acquisition: Nancy Rickenbacker and National
Air and Space Museum.